Old wind turbine blades could be recycled into GUMMY BEARS after scientists develop a resin that can be dissolved and transformed into other materials and the end of its use cycle.

I read, re-read, and re-re-read the Daily Mail headline several times before checking I hadn’t accidentally opened Babylon Bee.

No doubt the scientists behind this gimmick expected serious comment on their incredible genius, but all we could do was laugh – holding back tears as images of small children with sharp teeth scaling wind turbines to have a bit of a chew crossed our minds moments before we were due on live TV.

After wading through malicious puns made at the article’s expense, the idea behind it boils down to creating a composite resin strong enough to act as a wind turbine blade that can be dissolved and re-purposed. It is, if nothing else, an admission to the complaint that short-lived wind turbine blades are piling up in landfill, creating literal mountain ranges of waste.

Wind turbines are the single-use plastic bags of the renewables industry. The only reason we don’t talk about how awful they are more often is because their reputation is protected by an axis of social media, political egos, and billionaire investors.

With a looming two million 60-100 metre blades ripped out and thrown away every year, they are casting a shadow over Green, Labor, and Teal politicians who mutter nonsense about wind energy being ‘cheap, free, and clean’.

According to Michigan State University, which created the resin by combining synthetic and plant-derived polymers with glass fibres, turbine blades could be transformed into laptop covers, sinks, bench-tops, energy drinks, and gummy bears…

‘We recovered food-grade potassium lactate and used it to make gummy bear candies – which I ate,’ said Dr Dorgan, one of the scientists involved.

‘A carbon atom derived from a plant, like corn or grass, is no different from a carbon atom that came from a fossil fuel. It’s all part of the global carbon cycle, and we’ve shown that we can go from biomass in the field to durable plastic materials and back to foodstuffs.

‘It’s something that you would find in Gatorade sports drinks or in various types of candies. So we went that extra step and took the recovered material that we made and included it as an ingredient in some candies. We made gummy bears from that.’

Yes, and Bill Gates stood in front of the cameras and drank water made from excrement. There wasn’t exactly a queue of people behind him wanting to try it out.

To put this in perspective, Europe (and other Western nations) are deliberately destroying their agricultural industries through Net Zero policies handed out by the IPCC, United Nations, World Economic Forum, and European Union to justify the building of wind turbines and solar panels.

Growing food is considered ‘environmental vandalism’ leading governments to create an artificial fresh-food shortage to improve their emissions ratings.

The companies in partnership with these international ‘green’ authorities are moving in to ‘solve’ the food crisis through the expansion of chemical-based food or ‘technical advancements’ to make large-scale agriculture (not small-family farming) acceptable. In other words, the free market has been stripped of small-to-medium competition on ‘ethical grounds’ and replaced by the world’s largest companies that were involved in the Net Zero policy discussions.

In addition to solar panels pre-roasting the bug platters Klaus Schwab expects us to eat, and wind turbines creating the main course of endangered eagles and rare sea birds – we are now expected to feed the turbine blades to our kids.

It is an innovation that represents the perfect fusion between indoctrinating children with fear and then locking in Climate Change consumerism. Imagine how many Carbon Social Credit points you’ll be awarded for eating turbine blades! 

If this is bureaucracy’s solution to eco-fascism starving the world, I think I’d rather eat the eco-fascists.

Just like the critical shortage of lithium, which is poised to collapse the renewables industry, there isn’t enough bioplastic to replace the millions of turbine blades – so we’ll need to grow plants (which the same people told us is evil) to break organic matter down into plastic (which is being banned, remember?) to make turbines (that don’t work particularly well) which we then have to feed our children (because we turned farms into green energy plants).

There is another possible solution – one that involves half a dozen nuclear plants in Australia surrounded by beautiful, sprawling family farms providing high-quality, affordable fresh food to citizens.

Everyone loves the environment, but this particular bastardisation between corporate and politics that has arisen under the banner of Climate Change incentivises starvation and rewards bad products with billions of dollars in public grants.

Thirty years ago, Australia had plenty of cheap power, the best fresh food in the world, and a push toward a clean environment based on cleaning up actual pollution.

Today, politicians throw money and international socialists in return for food grown in a lab, pensioners freezing in homes lit by soy candles, and cars fashioned in the depths of child slavery. There’s also rubbish everywhere because kids are too busy walking over it on their way to a climate rally.

If you decide that this whole Net Zero thing might not be a ‘great idea’, a wide variety of ‘Carbon Police’ will be there waiting to fine you for crimes against the government’s Net Zero goals.

The hashtag #ClimateJustice means business. Those who defy or disagree with the world’s richest manipulating humanity into an increasingly artificial hell will be forced to comply through a digital ‘reward’ (soon to be punishment) system. Labor’s Climate Change Bill is only the beginning.

The real question is, will Vegans eat a wind turbine if it comes dripping in the blood of murdered birds?

Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.

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